Word: gurkha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fanatic mob, 5,000 strong, ranged the streets, shouting "Nadra!" and "Allah!", stoning and cudgeling Europeans and Eurasians, overturning automobiles, driving whites into terrified hiding. Singapore's Malay police seemed to have no heart to restrain their coreligionists. British and Gurkha troops, with bayonets and riot shields, barred the mob from a march on the Convent of the Good Shepherd, four miles outside the city, where Bertha and mama Hertogh waited for a plane to Holland. There the girl doffed her Moslem veil for European dress, tried to remember her Dutch, fondled a doll, told her mother...
...women in uniform, counting the regular army, navy and air force, plus draftees and territorials. But the army is scattered far & wide: two understrength divisions in Germany, a brigade in Austria and one in Trieste, three divisions spread over the Middle and Far East, a Gurkha division in Malaya, about 60,000 other "colonial" troops in Africa, Malta...